Secret City - Kamloops

Commissioned by Western Canada Theatre for their 2017-2018 season.This edition is expected to take 90 minutes. Recommend age: 14+

Secret City: Kamloops takes place on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc First Nations.

Transform your ordinaryinto someone else’s extraordinary.

Grab your smart phone and some headphones and explore downtown Kamloops while listening to original PodPlays based on true events that took place there. It will change the way you see the pedestrian world around you in a most unexpected way.

4. Trouble Child

Written and performed by Alicia AshcroftSound engineering and design by Brooke BallamAs always, to the subject of this story— Monica Weys. “I carry your heart. I carry it in my heart”.

Listening Location:

Traffic Lights

1st and Seymour ~ northwest corner

5. STANDING ON THE CORNER OF INDECISION AND I LOVE YOU

Created by Laura Michel-EvansRecorded by Peter Evans and Laura Michel-Evans

Listening Location:

Maurya's Fine Indian Cuisine

165 Victoria Street

6. SAFE DEEP SPACE

Created by Matt MacintoshBased on memories provided by Lori Marchand

Lori Marchand is the daughter of Len Marchand, the first Status Indian to serve as a Member of Parliament. Safe Deep Space uses sound to capture Lori’s memories of Peter Wing and his restaurant, China Village, through experiences with her father. The audio alternates between dinner table chat and campfire storytelling to speak to China Village as a place where two marginalized communities—the Chinese and Indigenous people of Kamloops—could meet to share stories, ideas and friendship in a welcoming, nonjudgmental space.It also suggests multiple frames of reference for two conversational streams. These frames fold in on one another in ways that echo the cataloging of memory and tradition and the rhizomatic arrangement of information on the internet. Both are interrupted. Both have competing desires; distinctiveness and sameness, zoomed–in and zoomed out perspectives on people and place.